OpenVZ Forum: Devel » userns: targeted capabilities v5

Home » Mailing lists » Devel » userns: targeted capabilities v5

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace [message #41868 is a reply to message #41864]

Wed, 23 February 2011 23:19

David Howells
Messages: 44
Registered: October 2006

Member

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> > Which means that unless the uts_namespace belongs to our user_namespace, we
> > cannot change it. Is that correct?
>
> No. If you are root in a parent namespace you can also change it.

But surely, by definition, if you're a user in this namespace, you can't also
be root in a parent namespace...

For the case I worked through current_user() is a member of current_user_ns()
and can't also be a member of its parent, grandparent, etc. - or can it?

David
_______________________________________________
Containers mailing list
Containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containe rs

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		userns: targeted capabilities v5 By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:02
		[PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:46
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: Daniel Lezcano on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:44
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 12:01
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: serge on Wed, 23 February 2011 13:43
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 11:40
		Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace. By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 16:59
		[PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:04
		Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 01:29
		Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: serge on Thu, 24 February 2011 03:24
		Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: akpm on Thu, 24 February 2011 05:08
		Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 19:22
		[PATCH 7/9] add a user namespace owner of ipc ns By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 7/9] add a user namespace owner of ipc ns By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:19
		Re: [PATCH 7/9] add a user namespace owner of ipc ns By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 7/9] add a user namespace owner of ipc ns By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 17:57
		[PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:02
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:31
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: Daniel Lezcano on Fri, 18 February 2011 16:57
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 17:16
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: ebiederm on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:21
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 23:19
		Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace By: ebiederm on Wed, 23 February 2011 23:54
		[PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:05
		Re: [PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container By: Daniel Lezcano on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:46
		[PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:00
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: serge on Thu, 24 February 2011 00:48
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: akpm on Thu, 24 February 2011 00:54
		Re: [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 10:55
		[PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 01:57
		Re: [PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c By: akpm on Sat, 19 February 2011 00:01
		Re: [PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 17:52
		[PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 02:59
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: serge on Fri, 18 February 2011 04:36
		[PATCH] userns: ptrace: incorporate feedback from Eric By: serge on Thu, 24 February 2011 00:49
		Re: [PATCH] userns: ptrace: incorporate feedback from Eric By: akpm on Thu, 24 February 2011 00:56
		Re: [PATCH] userns: ptrace: incorporate feedback from Eric By: serge on Thu, 24 February 2011 03:15
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 23:59
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: serge on Thu, 24 February 2011 00:43
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 17:49
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 17:05
		Re: [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 17:11
		[PATCH 8/9] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls By: serge on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:03
		Re: [PATCH 8/9] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 01:51
		Re: [PATCH 8/9] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls By: Daniel Lezcano on Sat, 19 February 2011 19:07
		Re: userns: targeted capabilities v5 By: akpm on Fri, 18 February 2011 00:21
		Re: userns: targeted capabilities v5 By: ebiederm on Fri, 18 February 2011 03:53
		Re: userns: targeted capabilities v5 By: serge on Fri, 18 February 2011 04:28
		User namespaces and keys By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 12:05
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: serge on Wed, 23 February 2011 13:58
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: ebiederm on Wed, 23 February 2011 14:46
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: David Howells on Wed, 23 February 2011 15:06
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: ebiederm on Wed, 23 February 2011 15:45
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: Serge E. Hallyn on Wed, 23 February 2011 15:53
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: Casey Schaufler on Wed, 23 February 2011 19:24
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: ebiederm on Wed, 23 February 2011 20:55
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: Casey Schaufler on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:37
		Re: User namespaces and keys By: ebiederm on Thu, 24 February 2011 06:56

Previous Topic:	[PATCH 0/5] blk-throttle: writeback and swap IO control
Next Topic:	[PATCH 1/4] userns: let clone_uts_ns() handle setting uts->user_ns

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Tue Oct 07 08:36:01 GMT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.18813 seconds